On the impact of future climate change on tropopause folds and tropospheric ozone

Akritidis, Dimitris; Pozzer, Andrea; Zanis, Prodromos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14387-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14387-2019

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Research article

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28 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 28 Nov 2019

On the impact of future climate change on tropopause folds and tropospheric ozone

Dimitris Akritidis, Andrea Pozzer, and Prodromos Zanis

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RC1: 'Review of the paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Dimitris Akritidis, 03 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of Akritidis et al. (2019)', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #2', Dimitris Akritidis, 03 Oct 2019
RC3: 'Review of “On the impact of future climate change on tropopause folds and tropospheric ozone”, by D. Akritidis et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Referee #3', Dimitris Akritidis, 03 Oct 2019

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AR by Dimitris Akritidis on behalf of the Authors (04 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Oct 2019) by Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero

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AA by Dimitris Akritidis on behalf of the Authors (12 Nov 2019) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (17 Nov 2019) by Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero

Short summary

We investigate the impact of future climate change under the RCP6.0 scenario on tropopause folds and tropospheric ozone, using a transient EMAC simulation and a tropopause fold detection algorithm. A strengthening of ozone stratosphere-to-troposphere transport (STT) is projected for the future, resulting in an increase in upper- and middle-tropospheric ozone. The maxima of future ozone STT increases are mainly projected for regions where tropopause folds are expected to occur more frequently.